"If things get too much for you and you feel the whole world's against you, go stand on your head. If you can think of anything crazier to do, do it." When asked how many children he'd like to have: "So many that whenever we go out, there can be one in every window, waving to us." "But I guess that's the way it is. When you lose something irreplaceable, you don't mourn for the thing you lost. you mourn for yourself." "I am the most fortunate self-taught harpist and non-speaking actor who has ever lived." On visiting Hamburg, Germany, shortly after Adolf Hitler came to power: "I saw the most frightening, most depressing sight I had ever seen - a row of stores with Stars of David and the word 'Jude' painted on them, and inside, behind half-empty counters, people in a daze, cringing like they didn't know what hit them and didn't know where the next blow would come from. Hitler had been in power only six months, and his boycott was already in full effect. I hadn't been so wholly conscious of being a Jew since my bar mitzvah, and it was the first time since I'd had the measles that I was too sick to eat."